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| Omar bemoans ban on mobile internet | | No concern for refugees | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 14: NC working president and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Omar Abdullah is very unhappy these days. He says the Kashmiri people have many complaints and one of their complaints is that they had been without mobile internet for three months now.
"We have been without mobile internet for three months now and its become a way of life for them," he has said. It would have been better had he reflected on the circumstances under which the state government banned mobile internet. He should have said that the undesirable elements in the Valley had been misusing the internet to create disturbances in Kashmir. Indeed, the situation was such that the government had to take this step, And Kashmir is not the only region where the people remained without mobile internet for days. Jammu, which is almost peaceful, also had to remain without mobile internet from time to time.
The refugees from Pakistan and from Kashmir would have appreciated him had he taken up their cause and said that while the refugees from Pakistan had been leading a wretched life in Jammu since 70 years as the successive state governments, including his own, didn't grant them any citizenship right, the Kashmiri Hindus had been living in exile for more than 26 years now and that all of their grievances must be redressed without losing a moment.
It bears recalling that it was in 1947 that many people, all Hindus and mostly Dalits, migrated from the then West Pakistan to Jammu to save their lives and dignity. Sheikh Abdullah had promised that they would be granted citizenship rights. It was this assurance which induced these refugees to stay put in Jammu, but till date they have not got any citizenship right despite the fact that they organized several demonstrations and sent out many delegations to Delhi to obtain justice but with no result.
Similarly, the over three lakh Kashmiri Hindus migrated from Kashmir in 1990 for the same reasons. They have been crying for justice and also demanding a separate homeland in the Valley since then, but with no result.
This is a human problem. Their human rights have been ruthlessly violated. Their demands are just and constitutional and yet no Kashmiri leader, including Omar Abdullah, wept for them.
His heart bleeds only for Kashmir. That he complained that the people of Kashmir had been without mobile internet for three months and that he chose not to utter a word on the age-old problem of refugees from Pakistan and Kashmir, besides on the utter neglect of Jammu and Ladakh, should prove that he not a state-level leader and that he only heads a party which is sub-regional and that he is biased. |
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